The combined allied army moved out of the outer city's opened gates like a flood. Akira and the Garg Calvary exited the gates first and fanned out into formation as they waited for more infantry to form up behind them.
Akira watched as the army formed up and then without another word nudged Grarr to begin the charge forward.
Kodria's flag with the moon and howling wolf fluttered in the wind held high by Tanner for all to see. Tanner rode on a Garg mount a short distance behind Akira.
“Yap!” Fluffball ran alongside Grarr and Akira's other personal guards growing to his full size as his holy ice armor covered his body.
Like a stampede of angered wild beasts, they charged forward across the flat battlefield that had a fresh white cover of snow, headed right towards the large detachment of Ratmen that were advancing to attack the east fort.
Akira and the cavalry slammed into the front side of the several thousand-strong ragtag army of Ratmen.
They plowed through them like piercing snow with a hot knife.
Akira did not need to use skills as every swing of his sword one or more head, arm, or leg was severed.
Grarr bit and clawed his way through any Ratman that tried to obstruct his way forward. He was helped by Fluffball who was plowing through any ratmen that came near him, freezing dozens of them as he ran alongside Grarr.
With the cavalry carving through the ratmans ragtag army it was split into two with more than 1000 ratman soldiers trapped between the fort and the infantry that had arrived moments later behind the cavalry.
The enemy's advance was completely halted and now the Orcs led by Varbu were decimating the trapped ratman, it was an utter bloodbath.
Akira turned the cavalry force around for a second pass at the Ragtag army that was still several thousand stronger than the cavalry.
As they cut through them again Akira was cutting through a Brave ratman that had charged him when he received a large impact to his side chest nearly knocking him off Grarr.
Akira looked down at his chest to see a large dent where a Crossbow bolt had nearly pierced through.
“ROAAAR!” Upon seeing Akira getting hit, Fluffball's angry gaze zeroed in on the ratman who had shot him and spewed several ice shards in his direction, freezing and shattering him into hundreds of small bloody chunks.
After Akira and the Cavalry finished their second pass and the infantry behind them started to push forward the ragtag Ratman army broke and began fleeing back towards the main army
The cavalry and Infantry hounded the fleeing Ratman, killing at least 1000 as they fled. When the main ratman army that was trying to set up defenses saw the approaching army they dropped what they were doing and fled ahead of the smaller ratman army behind them.
After an hour of chasing the enemy, Akira halted the cavalry and infantry chase. There was no knowing if there was a trap they were being led into so he decided it was better to call it off now while they still could.
Ding!
The first wave of enemies has been repelled!
The second wave will start tomorrow.
“Awooo!” “Graaaaa!” “Gii giii!”
The soldiers all let out celebratory roars into the air. While the shaman led by Klyn went around the battlefield treating the wounded warriors and allies of Kodria before beginning the treatment of any of the enemy wounded.
Akira urged Grarr to the front of the battlefield and stood up with his sword raised to gain the attention of the celebrating soldiers. Tanner followed behind him with Kodria's flag held high. There were a few extra flecks of blood now on it.
A second wave of cheers rang out at seeing Akira and the flag ride in front of them.
Grarr stopped on a small snowbank that allowed everyone to see Akira clearly.
“Although we won a great victory today, the enemy will not give up so easily. They will be back again the question is with what type of ally? You all need to rest up now while you have the chance, I have a feeling that the next several days will allow very little sleep,” said Akira in his booming voice.
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“OOOOO!” The soldiers cheered and started the journey back to Kodria where they could return to their stations in the outer city to blow off steam while they could.
A few stayed behind to help the Shaman search the long stretch of the battlefield and carry the wounded allies back.
“Be sure to thoroughly question them about the enemy plans,” Akira ordered a few of the passing soldiers as they carried wounded Ratman warriors that had survived the battle.
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“It is as you thought,” said Bo giving his report to Akira as they rode out the outer city gates.
“They are on the move?” asked Akira as he led the cavalry out the city gates to join Varbu and Zundar who were both commanding the infantry forces.
“Yes,” said Bo.
“These damn ratman don't know when to give up,” said Zundar as he looked at the approaching ratman army that had been severely bloodied the day before losing several thousands of their warriors.
“Let's Finish them this time so they don't bother us later!” said Akira.
Akira waved his hand and gave the order to advance.
Similar to the day before the army moved forward towards the approaching ratman army.
The ratman had changed their tactics from the day before and now the full force of their army was headed to the east fort to try and take it over and use it as a base instead of setting up a camp in the open snowy field.
The allied infantry slammed into the rear of the ratman army who for some reason had been ignoring Kodria's army and were just focused on running towards the fort. The infantry tried to swallow up the army but they were still outnumbered by the Ratmen.
Akira led the cavalry into a side charge of the Ratmen, tearing up and knocking back hundreds as they plowed through.
Everyone on the battlefield could track their quick progress by following the flying flag that was held high by tanner as he fought alongside Akira.
Rechee who had been at the center of the charging army turned and led his elite warriors towards Akira.
The two forces clashed and Akira was surprised that Rechee survived his sword attack that had killed hundreds of other Ratmen almost instantly. Along with Rechee most of his elite warriors were able to weather the initial clash.
“Chee reee chee!” Rechee cursed at Akira as he attacked Akira once again with his new sword.
Rechee was extremely happy for the weapons and armor that had been given to him by the black cloaks. He felt full of energy as his eyes continued to emit a red light that covered his entire eyes.
Akira fended off the attacks with his shield as he inspected the Ratman's red eyes. He was not sure if their glowing red eyes were some sort of skill or a passive trait of the ratman race. Whatever it was, it made him feel a sense of danger.
Mileena disappeared from behind Akira as she activated her skill [Blink] to teleport behind Rechee and try to quickly assassinate him but.... the elite guards around him had fearlessly moved in front of her attack to block it.
The elite guards whose eyes were also glowing red jumped forward and mindlessly latched onto the clones that Mileena had created and received the attacks that were meant for their boss sacrificing their lives for him.
All around them the ratman army was being decimated by the allied forces and the cavalry who had moved to surround the front and sides of the ratman army.
Rechee did not sound retreat, he was mindlessly only focusing on attacking Akira.
The ratman warriors dropped like flies. They were no longer able to push forward and were now being pushed back. The brawling battle between Akira and Rechee also moved away from the forts.
“Awoooo!”
Akira's face turned grim as he heard the howl coming from Bo who was keeping an eye on the entire battlefield.
The infected had shown up!
“Pull back from their rear! Kill as many Ratman as you can!” growled Akira. The officers relayed his orders and they pushed forward even harder slaughtering all that stood in their way while suffering only minuscule casualties themselves.
Kodria's army straightened out as they pushed the Ratmen back.
Akira watched as the distant waves of stony black molten onyx infected appeared in the distance and slowly marched towards both the ratman and the outer city!
The Molten onyx infected that were marching toward the ratman slammed into their rear and started pushing through and walking over the ratman warriors.
All this made the surviving ratman warriors start panicking as they were taking damage from both the front and rear.
As this was happening the red light in Rechee's eyes disappeared when Akira landed a heavy blow on his chest that had a red crystal embedded in the armor.
“Chee? Reeechee?” Rechee looked around surprised, taking his attention away from the battle with Akira.
Rechee was shocked to find himself on the frontline. As he glanced at the situation around him he was horrified at the low numbers of ratman warriors still alive. Almost all his elites were already gone.
Seeing the infected had arrived and that they were attacking anything in front of them, even the ratman who were supposed to be their allies, he immediately gave a screeching order “Chee ree!”
Akira thrust his sword forward and managed to pierce Rechee's shoulder. Several of the elite ratamn jumped forward and blocked Akira from landing another attack.
Rechee was able to retreat along with the surviving ratman as they escaped into the molten onyx infected mass to retreat. But in order to do this Rechee had to sacrifice several of his remaining elite warriors leaving him with only a handful left.
“Retreat to the city walls!” howled Akira.
There was no point fighting out in the open against such a large force right now when they did not have the full information on the enemy that was attacking them.
There was also the fact that the holy shamen were on the walls ready to support the army and battle the infected.
Akira could already hear the loud thunks of the tower ballistas, see the clouds of arrows, and bright white holy light flying through the air before they slammed into the clamoring wave of infected moving towards the outer city.